The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1915, Page 1

EDITION = PRICE ONE CENT GERM TOSI —-——-— | oddilatiipaniean, Victors Pressing the Foe Back to Strumitza Across the Bulgar Frontier. » ADMIT LOSS OF USKUB. Austro-Germans Said to Be Advancing on an 80-Mile Front From the Danube. , LONDON, Oct. 25.—French troops routed three divisions (36,000 men) of Bulgarians on Saturday on the front @f ~— Gradek-Volandovo-Rabrovo, Southrastern Serbia, according to de- patches from Salonica. The Bulgar- fan forces were decimated in the bat- @8, which lasted twenty-four hours. French troops are following up their victory and are now threatening Stru- | mitga, Bulgaria, to which place the Bulgarians retired in disorder, The Brench are now holding a line run- a@ing fom Barakli to Rabovo. The Bulgarians eufferct from the firre of the French three-inch guns. PARIS, Oct. 2%.—The junction of French troops with the Serbs at Krivolak in Southern Serbia 1s do- bed as a brilliant success in a to the Petit Parisien from heavily Athens. “Bulgarian troops in force were at- im three columns,” says the . “when our troops by a dar- manoeuvre turned the Bulgarian Fight flank while the Serbs launched Qn energetic counter attack all along the front. At the end of the day the Bulgarians beat o retroat in the dl- ion of Strumitsa pursued by troops and Serbian cavalry. “Bulgarian operations against Pirot were fruitless. They seem to intend ¢o concentrate efforts on Vrania und @re trying to attack in mass on fortl- fications and positions occupied by the Serbs at Viacena, “The Bulgarians are stopped on the imok while the Austro-Germans are a up on the northwestern front on @e Save and Danube. Milltary cir- @les here believe that the Austro-Ger- fans will not resume the offensive in @he north until the Bulgarians by gain- dng © definite success are uble to ef- fect @ junction with them.” , “According to information from an Bulgarians have taken: Uskup,” is the concluding @uthorized source the Bentence of an official ement 18- by the Serbian War Office and rwarded by the Havas Nows Agency. \wentons Gain 1 London LONDON, Oct. 25.—The Austro- ! Germans were advancing in Serbia to-day along about an 80-mile front, @bout thirty miles south of the Dan- ng the Bei- and be aud Save, and sirw grade-Constantinople Borava River, SOFIA, Oct railroad (Via London).—An joMcial communication Issued poncerning the capture of bia, by the Bulgarians, follows: Pou troops inflicted a decisive de- deat on the Serbian troops in occupied the town. More than 600 men killed or wounded, defile. aaigen,”* 4 in! Northern Serbia, here Uskup, the Pelghborhood of Uskup, we finally The enemy, with Was thrown back on the Katsoharik Our troops are pursuing them ously in that direction, On the ther fronts there are no important | “Circulation Books Open to AIL” 36,000 BULGARS ROUTED BY FRENCH AND LONDON AND PARIS CLAIM SERBS, NEW OREADNOUGHT, WITH MIGHTY GUNS, ARRIVES FOR TES Nevada Reaches Navy Yard From Builders in Charge of Civilian Crew. The latest addition to Uncle Sam's navy, the dreadnought Nevada, rived at the Brooklyn Navy shortly before noon ar- Yard to-day and at once went into drydock to be groomed for her preliminary trials. The dig. impressive Nevada would hardly aat- faty the eye of an asthetic, There is nothing particularly beautiful or or- namental in her construction, She is a drab and severe-lined fighting ma- chine—the most grim appearing fight- ing ship to join the navy. A crew of civilians in dungarees brought the dreadnous’ , minus pomp and bunting, from the Fore River Sbipbullding Corporation's yards to Quarantine late last night. This morn- ing the floating terror was taken in tow by snorting tugs and dragged to drydock, Hardly had the Nevada been warped into the Navy Yard dock than a gang of painter, swung scaf- folds from her deck and began acrap- ing and apply red paint preparatory to her final coat of drab gray. She was gray painted this morning, but In a day or two she will be red as a ripe tomato. Officers and men of the fleet under- going repairs in the Navy Yard crowded to the sides of their vessels to study the new fighter, for she possesses many new departures in na- val construction. She is the first American naval ship to have turrets equipped with batteries of three guns each. TWO TURRETS CARRY THREE 14- INCH GUNS, | ‘The Nevada has two such turrets, one forward and the other aft. The three guns to each turret are four- teen-inch and forty-five calibre. These guns will be fired in salvos of There are two three guns each. other turrets on the Nevada, one for-|the night schools—is due to the ward and one aft and arranged to the | Board of Education, They have had rear of tho three-gun turrets and] control of the funds to do what they rising above them. ‘These turrets each have two fourteen-inch guns Besides the four turrets with thelr |). visniy in one direction in order tol ten fourteen-inch guns the NeW] recto an artificial deficit In another dreadnought fairly bristles with fve-| pyerypody knows that the question of inch guns which compose her financing he schools is not @ political | ondary battery. There are twenty-| 056 The trouble is that President one guns of the five-inch type and they protrude from every conceivable part of the monster. “If the Mayor had the same control ing ship afloat, but she 1s also armored rug’ on aa Ue hike | to such perfection that tt would take (ve) the heads of other departments| many mighty shell to reach her vitals. pote the schools would be run for iess The main armor belt that protects money and the children would be get her engines and other important ting no less servic workings Is thirteen and a half inches |"). The Board of Education budget, thick amidships. It is possible for Hinble-footed wailors to walk. alone | Which this year awgregated $41,000,000/ nine c A108 | or $42,000,000, presented the greatest the top of this guardian belt of steel. The two big turrets that hoyse the (Continued on Second Page.) ‘The World Travel Bur: wi us fy ft forraleshataie la ieee ty The Prem Puldiohing Vert World Not only is the Nevada prepared with guns to make her a worthy antagonist of any fight- IF SCHOOL BOARD. "RESIGNS, MAYOR CAN ECONOMIZE | —e>— Tells Churchill He Can Prove This Any Time Commis- | sioners Will Go, $237,000 IS NOW VOTED. Aldermen Come to Relief of the Night Schools With Other Funds. The bitter between Mayor Mitchel and President Chureh- ill of the Board of Education was resumed to-day when Mayor Mitchel once more invited Mr. Churchill and his colleagues to resign if they con- tinue to refuse to subscribe to his ideas of economy. The first outbreak between the two officials occurred at Friday's meeting of the Board of Es- timate, when Mayor Mitchel accused the Board of Education of not econ- omizing as other city departments have been doing. Yesterday, in reply to the Mayor, ir, Churchill was quoted as saying: “We are in the clutches of politics. ‘ ought not to be in the clutches of the City Hall. We prefer that the control shall rest in Albany, The Mayor is unconsciously thinking of his political future and sacrificing the schools to that.” Replying to controvery Mr. Churchill, the Mayor says: “If any of the gentle- men in the Board of Education, Mr, Churchill included, feel they cannot run the schools on the money appro- Driated, it is their duty to resign and allow the Mayor to appoint those who can, “In an interview Mr. Churehill is reported to have said: ‘The Board of Education cannot be expected to ac- cept the ideas of some half-baked outsider.’ “T suppose the ‘half-baked putsider’ to whom Mr. Churchill referred is Prof, Wirt of Gary, Ind,, whom he| brought here to use, and when he found he could not use him to pro- mote the interests of the Board of Education he now proposes to attack him, “I made it clear in the Board of Estimate meeting that I am prepared to vote funds to keep the night schools open. President Churchill knows that, for I stated it openly at the meeting. What I also tried to make clear there was that the respon- sibility for the present situation—run- ning short of funds in the branch of please with them, “It's an old trick to apend funds| Churehill trie question to make it a political refusing to recognize it as a business one, as it Is In all other city departments, opportunity for economy, genuine| economy—not meaning a reduction of | | services pul the application of busi- | ness methods. If the members of the Bourd of Education want this proved let them resign and I'll appoint a board that will run the schools eco- Promdent Churchill late this after- noon induced the Finance Commitige Germans Accused in the Plot to Blow Up Munitions Plants and Ships Carrying Arms Linur. ROB'T, TWELVE MEET DEATH AS FIRE TRAPS GIRLS; OTHERS ARE MISSING Eight Badly Injured Escaping Blaze That Raced Through Pittsburgh Factory. PITTSBURGH, Oct, 25. girls and one man employed fn factory of the Union Pap pany, on the North side, Eleven the + Box Com- are known to be dead, eight girls are badly in- jured and a number of others are missing as the result of « fire whici this afternoon started in the feed store of James Brown & Co, and spread to the factory. Firemen searching the ruins of the three-story building recovered the bodies and, reinforced by the entire city depart- ment, continued their search in the dense smoke, | Henry T. Schafer, Manager of the | girls and six men were at work when the fire broke out, The bodies recov- ered were so badly burned as to be unrecognizable. A number of girls some jumping to safety windows. The driver of a fire engine on its way to the blaze was crushed when | the engine overturned and it was feared he would die. Another fire- man was overcome by smoke and was said to be in a critioal condition were rescued, from «the of the Board of Aldermen to mend the raising of $237,000 purpose of continuing night schools until the end of the term and to make good a deficit in the day school fund About $100,000 will be devoted to night school work and the remainder to day schools recom- for the 4% means that the night achools will remain open until end of the term if the Board of Estimate nexg) Friday sanctions the action to b taken in favor of the appropriation at to-morrow afternoon's ular meeting of the Aldermen, «| It will require of the Ald appropriation. Again, it will r the unanimous consent of the Board of Estimate next Friday Htoun the ‘Tammany and buasion leaders in t Finance Committes greed that President Churchill's re st was falr and reasonable ant Jicted that the entire board woudl -morrow sunetion their action to-day President Churchill smiled when of Mayor Mitchel's statemen ving the invitation to him to re sign, an dsald: “When Mayor Mitchel | unanimous con: quire | was given a dinner by the Committee of 107 he said he could save millions | with a smaller Board of Education Next day I wrote him a lett aim to prove this and | recelved an answer yet.” Mr. Churehill denied that he mean Prof, Wirt when he spoke previously of “a half-baked outsider,” and said he referred to some one closer Mayor than Prof, Wirt, have NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, N AGENT REVEALS WHOLE PLOT | K SHIPS; EMBASSY KNEW OF HIM | of West | to look back and Frank leaped down | the rmen to pass the $287,000] jodged in her breast. | from his coat pocket a small bottle SHOOTS WOMAN, | TRIES TOKILL SELF ON A FERRYBOAT Enraged Crowd Attacks Man Who Fired Shot and Tries to Throw Him Overboard. In the women's cabin of the Lacka- wanna ferryboat Hopateong in mid- stream in the North River to-day at half-past 12 Elizabeth Nelson, a young girl usher in the Lyrte Theatre, Ho boken, was shot and mortally wound- ed by her former Frank of No. Frank then tried to end his life by drinking carbolic acid and @ score of men attacked him and tried to throw him overboard, but were fought off by deckhands. Passengers noticed the couple quar- relling when they boarded the boat at the New York terminal at the foot Twenty-third Street. The girl ved at Tenth Avenuo and Twen- ty-third Street, Manhattan. The Ho- boken police belleve Frank went to the New York side to meet her as she started for the theatre to-day. The couple went to the top deck, where . The boat pulled out from the slip shortly after 12.80 o'clock and {t was well out the when the passengers heard woman ery out and run leading from the the cabin, admirer, Samuel 110 Clinte y Street, Ho- boken. own the quarrel was resume in stream the the stairs deck to Frank ran after her At the foot of the stairs ahe paused toward upper woman's stairs, and when close to her drew the revolver and fired, One bul- let struck her in the forehead and two As she fell he the away and took threw revolver of carbolic acid. He was drinking the poison when | a deckhand ran into the cabin, and ing his way through a crowd of aming women who adosur rounded tho couple, dashed it from| his lips. Then Frank rushed toward | the end of the boat, but two men passengers caught him and threw him to the ground, Otver men had rushed over from the cabin at the other side of the boat and some on shouted: “Lynch him, throw him overboard.” There was a general rush for the 1915 J Cireala tion Books COUNTS FIRE POLICY AS AMONG ASSETS AFTER MENTAL EFFORT A dealer in cotton goods apperied to Commissioner Charles T. White to cancel his personal property tax Why, Commissioner,” he “ft owe more than [ pos- ou'll have to show me,” White. ‘The business man sat down and made a Nat of his debts, his per- jal property bills receivable, The figures showed that he waa right f lation ersixted the Com Haven't you some missioner. other assets?” The dealer in cotton gods thought with wrinkled — brow, Finally he said; “I--I--forgot to mention my fire insurance policy.” man Into the engine room and locked him there away from the crowd, When the boat reached the Hoboken terminal an ambulance was called and the girl was taken to St, Mary's Hos- tal, where it was said she will prob- nly die. Frank was treated by an ambulance surgeon and was then taken to the Hoboken Police Head- quarters, He declined to make a statement to the police. MALLORY LINER AFIRE AT SEA; GREW SAVED ——— Colorado Bound Here From Charles- ton, With Cotton, Beached and Abandoned—Had No Passengers. CHARLBDSTON, 8. C., Oct, 26,--The Mallory liner Colorado, which sailed from © ston last night with cot- ton for New York, caught fire and was abandoned, according to a wire- leu mess ved here to-day from the steamer Suwanee, The Suwanee reported the burning vessel had been sighted off Cape Ro thirty miles north of here, It was reported that a Merchants and Miners’ steamer had rescued the crew, The Colorado carried no passengers. mai No word concerning the origin of the fire on the Mallory Uner Col- orado had bean received at the main office of the Mallory Line here. Capt Congdon sent a wireless from the Suwanne sa fg he and all of the rew belleved to number thiety ae were safe on board the Bu . sand + bb to-morr She was built in April, 1879 406 fect long, had a beam t and & gross tonnage of iene LAUREL RESULTS. HACE t FIRST prisoner and int onfusion several women fainted The deckhands Anatly pushed the 1.14 5, 45, Tom fier, Disturber, Roseweter and WEATHER—Fow to-night end Veseder) warmer . Open to rT | 16 PAGES —— LIEUT. FAY IN CONFESSION SAYS VON PAPEN AND BOV-ED KNEW OF HIS BOMB PLANS Declares Embassy Attaches Opposed His Operating on Ships in New York Harbor, and Advised Him to Go to Canada. SENT HERE FROM GERMANY BY GOVERNMENT, HE SAYS The German army officer calling himself Robert Fay, who was ar- rested yesterday by New York detectives and Secret Service men while conducting, with the aid of his brother-in-law, Walter L. Scholz, experl- ments with. high explosives in the woods at Grantwood, N. J., made an amazing statement to-day in the lockup at Weehawken, in which he declared that Capt, von Papen and Capt. Boy-Ed, the military and naval attaches of the German Embassy, were aware that he came to this country for the purpose of blowing up ships carrying munitions:to the allies, Fay’s statement was made in his cell after he, Scholz and another had been held without bail to await arraignment on a cha: ge of conspiracy. At first Fay declared that he was acting as an individual and paying his own expenses. Then he said that he had been sent to secret service of the military est in Canada, Fay said that all his energ! bent toward disabling freight ships and he had no designs on passenger vessels, He was ready to start his campaign last July, he said, but was called off by Boy-Ed and von Papen, His mention of the names of Boy-EA and von Papen was voluntary, and ts considered significant in light of the fact that detectives and secret service men have obtained possession of a lot of documentary evidence in the case, When he began his statement to the reporters in the Weehawken jail, Fay expressed annoyance that the report had gone abroad that he had lost his head at the time of his ar- rest. He insisted that he had re- mained calm at al) stages and is calm now. “I came to this country,” he ald, “of my own volition. I knew the risks, I knew of your secret service and the British secret service, and I knew your harbor is patrolled by boats equipped with rapid-fire guns, I knew the allies would try to ar- range for my destruction, but I did not falter in my mission. HOPED TO SAVE 20,000 GERMAN SOLDIERS A WEEK, “My object In coming here was to interfere with the enormous shipping of artillery and ammunition to the allies, It is estimated that it takes twenty shells to kill a man in warfare, More than 400,000 shells a week are shipped from here, That means 20,000) dead German soldiers a week, If 1 could stop that I would be doing a ser- vies to my country and humanity, 'Hafore going ty I Want to oay that [ was not and am not Interested in trying to damage powder or am- munition plants. I have been em- plo as an efficiency expert and superintendent in arms works tn Ger- many, and I know that to do damage worth while to a powder or muni- tions plant is technically impossibie. Any factory can be reached and dam- aged, but no damage can be inflicted which cannot be repaired in a few hours or two or three days at the out- side. 1am a lieutenant in the German Army and have the Iron Cross deco- ration. The Idea of coming here to stop the shipment of artillery and mu- * nitions came to me while I was Oght- | Capt. New York by the ablishment with letters to Boy- Papen and that those two officers had forbidden him Rapes ja ships in this harbor, but had told him he might find w to try to blow up ork to do later on WOT ing with my regiment in the Cham- bagne district of France and wa ware under the bombardment of the French guna, “One night in @ massed attack we overcame and dynamited seven French batteries which had been sweeping us off the earth, To our dismay the French replaced these batteries the next day with larger suns. Their supply of guns and am- munition appeared to be inexhaust- ible, and of course know much of it was coming from New York, HAD LETTERS TO VON PAPEN AND BOY-ED. “T had invented a hand grenade and @ mine which ean be exploded without electric wires, My Colonel was inter- ested in me and I told him of my plan to come to this country and oop or hinder the shipping of arms and powder to our enemies, He got me in touch with the secret service office connected with such matters and my plan was endorsed, “They got me a passport, my pi and gave me letters to Capt. von Papen and Boy-Ed, 1 reached here on April 20 and saw both these officers as soon as possible. Boy-Ed I talked to about a minute and to Capt. von Papen about four or five minutes. Both of them re- fused to have anything to do with my project in this country, but said I might be able to do something later in Canada, “I heard from them occasionally. They warned me several times of the danger af tryt: te aenyiht te this harbor, “In the mean time I had hunted up my brother-in-law Scholz and he agreed to help me, We got a motor boat and explored the harbor and located all the docks and the anchor- ages of the freight steamers whiclt are engaged in carrying munitions of war from New York to England, France and Russia, HAD MADE BOMB TO BE FAST- ENED OUTSIDE A SHIP, “We paid no attention to passenger ships and my plans did not include the sacrifice of life, I had perfected 4 mine or bomb which could be faa- tened to the rudder post and stem of a single screw vesvel and the ao rranged